Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States.
Chapter 6 Placing the Public: Discourses of Publicity and Practices of Property -- Chapter 7 Power, Politics, and Regimes of Publicity -- Postscript: Interventions -- Methodological Appendix -- References -- Court Cases Cited -- Index
It is the story of black and white. And ultimately, it is the story of our nation's endless struggle to close the gap between what is and what should be.
When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's ...
By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness, and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment.
The Lady Is a Spy is the audacious and riveting true story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest spy and unsung hero, brought to vivid life by acclaimed author Don Mitchell.
Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the ...